From my house in Miami, I can hear dozens of car horns and a train and gunshots. Is there a major sporting event occuring that I am unaware of?

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srsly, that's what we do when we win the world series or the nba championship. guess it's time for a midnight bike ride to find out.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

castro is dead??

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

He's in surgery

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Castro relinquishes power before surgery

either that or Miami Vice premier party

― dmr (Renard), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

VIVA FIDEL

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

that's what i figured but all the news outlets say that he is just temporarily handing power to his brother. still a big deal here i guess

i do love these late-night street celebrations, that ride to calle ocho was awesome

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link

everybody is riding on top of cars and trucks waving flags. dancing to the endless drone of thousands of car horns! i meant to bring my tape recorder but forgot it in my excitement.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

and i am too sweaty to go back out

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, so his press secretary reads a prepared letter where he says he is stepping down due to stress for a surgery and he won't be visible for several weeks because of recuperation time so he is transfering power to his brother.

BUT THE TRUTH IS HE HAS KICKED THE BUCKET AND THIS IS AN ELABORATE STALIN ERA RUSE WHILE THE GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLES TO COVER IT UP.

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't think the cuban government is organized enough for that, quite frankly

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

STILL IT WOULD BE RAD, WOULDN'T IT????

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

interestingly enough, this description: Extreme stress "had provoked in me a sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding that obligated me to undergo a complicated surgical procedure."

is pretty much the story of my life this month!!

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link

okay everybody, i am very sorry for my behavior here. i am a little out of sorts.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

castro and vahid: INTESTINAL COMRADES

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Do Cuban people that are still in Cuba hate Castro as much as Cuban expatriates do or is it the kind of deal where the Cubans that left/got kicked out are the ones that hate him and the Cubans that are still in Cuba like him just fine?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i think that people either hate him or accept him, i've never really heard of anybody actively liking him.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

that varies... those that stay don't exactly get to strut their anti-castro vibe too much any hoot. the govt has pretty specific laws curtailing free assembly.

not to be too anti-castro either. i think you can look at a lot of latin america and see how big corporations via free markets have fucked over the people just as bad as totalitarian bs.

like i have a clue. i'm just sort of regurgitating what cuban friends have said over beers.
m.

― msp (mspa), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7418/630428690201lzzzzzzzro5.jpg

― heavyweight grebt (sanskrit), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

out of sorts

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y120/annalog/SnoopDog.jpg

lf, my first meal at Oberlin, I sat next to a kid from Zimbabwe and we talked about Snoop Dogg and fiending for the 'sticky icky icky,' as he liked to call it

― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

you know me well

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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